Word: mansion
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Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards, the keynote speaker last night, has her eyes on the governor's mansion in Texas. Shortly after her electrifying address, she was asked if she would be the next governor of the Lone Star State. "I certainly hope so," Richards responded...
Nobody speaks it with huge conviction, but the most promising theory in behalf of Spinks holds that the real world has recently descended on Tyson in the forms of a famous wife, a flamboyant mother-in-law, a $4.5 million mansion in Bernardsville, N.J., a parade of luxury cars (including a dinged one worth $180,000 that he tried to give away to the investigating officers) and a custody battle that pits the well-cologned manager Bill Cayton against the understated promoter Don King. Last August, once Tyson had all the belts, King threw a coronation for history's youngest...
...world champion Mike just can't seem to stay in the ring with the Givens-Roper tag team. Robin is making the poor boy break his traditional pre-fight vow of celibacy. And Robin's mom made him spend about 4.5 million on a new mansion in New Jersey. And they both are forcing him to put his financial records in their greedy, manipulative hands...
From fire-breathing Huey Long to high-living Edwin Edwards, Louisiana's populist Governors have almost always pushed at the boundaries of executive power. The latest to occupy the mansion, Democrat Charles ("Buddy") Roemer, has quickly stretched those boundaries to all but a breaking point. Since he took over from Edwards in March, the scrawny Harvard-educated chief executive has extracted from the legislature budgetary and political power rivaling that $ once held by the dictatorial Kingfish. "I'm the most powerful Governor in America," exults the pragmatic populist as he flashes a baby-faced smile...
Most of the University's professors do not have the opportunity to live in the traditional yellow Sparks House or Bok's mansion on Elmwood Ave. The select few professors who become house masters also inhabit grand houses designed for entertaining, but the remainder must face the perils of the Cambridge housing market...